re: Commonly held beliefs that you suspect are wrong

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Which makes it effective to keep someone from driving into to back of me since they can't see my taillights in a significant down pour.

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but they can miraculously see your hazard lights?

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The myth has been debunked numerous times in recent years by people who know a lot more than random hairdressers,

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I’m really glad you said this

I have very straight hair - and I think I got 3 days without washing my hair and I was like this is not normal!

My hair is so straight that it actually has to be wet to curl - it’s just how it is

Not many hair products out there for me anymore either

That the 5th dentist actually liked Trident as well but just wanted to be an a-hole.

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but they can miraculously see your hazard lights?

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This can't be a serious question. Do you not realize that when lights are on "auto" during the day your headlights are on but your taillights remain off? Yes, during a blinding rain in the day they can see the bright yellow blinking lights while simultaneously not seeing the tail lights that are not on.

I don't know that I would consider this phenomenon as a miracle, but to each his own.

I don’t know how to link it but look up Cliff Clavins Buffalo Theory.

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Well then they aren't bright enough because they are not effective in a torrential down pours during the day. If I'm on the interstate and can't see the tail lights in front of me then my hazards are coming on until there is a car behind me then I turn them off.

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It’s cool. But it’s also illegal in many states.

I’m not missing the point at all.

The point of will is making the choice REGARDLESS of external factors.

None of that matters when I simply choose the path to take.

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You chose not to go to the hospital based on external factors, whether you realize it or not.

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This right here proves it by your own words. I CHOSE to do or not do something; it’s really that simple.

I took information from source A and from source B and then decided to do option C. I CHOSE that. Don’t over complicate it

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That spanking kids as discipline works. It works for kids that can be disciplined anyway, and makes the situation worse for kids that can't. If spanking worked, black and Hispanic kids would be the best behaved on the planet.

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You’re only half right. You see, spanking doesn’t work if it’s not reinforced with actually teaching your kids to behave like a civilized human by both your words and actions, and by actions I mean how you behave as the parent. Kids learn the most from us by the example we set, far more than the words we say.

If all you do is beat their arse every time they mess up without any corrective instructions or explanation, especially about the connection between actions and consequences, they learn nothing from it. And if they see you acting like a fool, they’ll follow in your footsteps.

But on the other hand if you do actually teach them to be a civilized human by your instructions and your own behavior, along with reinforcing those lessons with the consequence of spanking when they step out of line, the results are almost always a well adjusted and well behaved child.

I suspect your view of free will is something like libertarian free will based on materialism: that is, unconditioned power to choose options arbitrarily (e.g., choosing either a burger or a salad). However, a sane person is not "free" to jump off a cliff just because they want to; sanity and knowledge actually restrict their choices to what is good and rational.

If a human being is merely a biological machine shaped entirely by local, physical conditions (like genetics, chemical reactions, and environment), then you would be 100% correct. You could never have universal knowledge because your thoughts would just be accidental byproducts of physical history. But, we are not conditioned merely by physical history.We are conditioned by a transcendental orientation toward truth, beauty, and goodness. Our minds are designed to seek reality. Because our ultimate "condition" is God (the source of all truth), our minds are inherently capable of grasping universal knowledge.

We are conditioned by a shared rational reality. Because we both are oriented towards the same universal truths, we can communicate and exchange universal knowledge.